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On Life The things we do today - sowing seeds, or sharing simple truths of Christ - people will someday refer to as the first things that prompted them to think of Him.
Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself.
As a follower of Christ, you can know that God will work to turn your circumstances into something good.
When you're too busy for family, friends or most importantly, God, you really are too busy.
If a care is too small to be turned into a prayer, it's too small to be made into a burden.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
The poorest of all men is not the man without a cent but the man without a dream
You can do anything in life you set your mind to, provided it is powered by your heart.
The best preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.
When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?
Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if he or she were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
When God measures a person, He puts the tape around the heart instead of the head.
…And be content with such things as ye have…
Decisions might take you out of God's will but never out of His reach.
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
A person's true character is shown by what he does when no one is watching.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
"No" is one of the few words that can never be misunderstood.
When you give of yourself, you receive more than you give.
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
It's good to be a Christian and know it, but it's better to be a Christian and show it!
I've always tried to go a step past wherever other people expected me to end up.
Judge not according to the appearance.
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
Life can only be understood by looking backward, but it must be lived by looking forward.
Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.
On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.
A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps as we walk the tightrope of life.
It seems rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death.
The biggest step you can take is the one you take when you meet the other person halfway.
Most people are too busy living life to ever put life in their living.
It is funny about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.
Be not made a beggar by banqueting on borrowing.
Always do more than is required of you.
A good way to judge people is by observing how they treat those who can do them absolutely no good.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
We cannot control the tragic things that happen to us, but we can control the way we face up to them.
The secret to momentum in life can be found in the work momentum…you create it moment by moment.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
The most important quality in the development of human character is, and always has been, self-discipline.
We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Life is short, and we never have too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. O be swift to love, make haste to be kind!
Knowing the truth and living the truth are two different things.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
Doest thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Enemies are made, not born.
No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the soul that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, and not according to what he has.
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
The smallest deed is far greater than the grandest intention.
He who has learned to laugh at himself is a near neighbor to happiness.
Who knows what level surprises your package of life holds: open with delight.
Fears over tomorrow and regrets over yesterday are twin thieves that rob us of the moment.
Brooks become crooked from taking the path of least resistance. So do people.
A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project.
Each day, find some way to draw closer to Christ.
T'ain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
Live your todays so that you can live with yourself tomorrow.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone.
Things turn out best for those that make the best of the way things turn out.
The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Man cannot live without self-control.
It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Life is the sum of all your choices.
The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Be Fair!! Get ALL the facts, then decide.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Wake up with a smile and go after life...live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.
The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Lost time is never found again.
The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent, but in failing to use that one talent.
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily.
To live forever in the hearts of friends is never to die.
There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.
The value of life lies, not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them: a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.
When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul!
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
It's not hardening of the arteries that makes one old - it's hardening of the heart.
Men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate decision to live wisely.
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
If you are afraid for your future, you don't have a present.
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